Reasonability!

"He who truly knows has no occasion to shout."

Leonardo da Vinci
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Purpose!

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

John F. Kennedy

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Energy!

"Energy and persistence conquer all things."

Portrait of Benjamin Fran... Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 on Milk Street in Boston, Massachusetts; and died on April 17, 1790. He was a man of many talents and interests. He maintained a couple of career being a statesman, philosopher, scientist, inventor, economist, business strategist, diplomat, humorist and musician. His family considered a second-generation immigrant, as his father came from England to Boston in 1683. Benjamin Franklin attended Boston Latin School but he didn't graduate. He continued his self-education through various readings and writings. He learned printing from his older brother, James Franklin when he founded the weekly newspaper "New-England Courant" in 1721. Benjamin Franklin fled from his brother's abuse and became a newspaper editor, printer, and merchant in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin founded the first "public lending library" called the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731 and the "fire department" in 1736. He founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743, to be the political discussion club known as the "Junto" at the same time. He published "Poor Richard's Almanac" for 25 years, as well as "Pennsylvania Gazette". Benjamin Franklin considered as a leader of the Enlightenment to gain the recognition of scientists and intellectuals across Europe. He became an agent in London before the Revolution and a Minister to France (1776-1785) during the Revolution. He invented the idea of an American nation, and he secured the French alliance during the American Revolution that made independence possible. He played the major role in the development of positive Franco-American relations. Benjamin Franklin was Postmaster General under the Continental Congress from 1775-1776 and President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania from 1785 to his death in 1790. He played also the major role in establishing the University of Pennsylvania and Franklin and Marshall College. Thomas Jefferson said about Benjamin Franklin: "The greatest man and ornament of the age and country in which he lived." Scottish philosopher David Hume called him "America's first man of letters."

Freedom!

"Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one’s listening, and live every day as if it were your last."

Irish proverb

Self-confidence!

"I had it in my heart. I believed in myself, and I had confidence. I knew how to do it, had natural talent and I pursued it."

Muhammad Ali

Patience!

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

Leo Tolstoy. USSR's author. He was a Russian novelist, philosopher, anarchist, educational performer, vegetarian and pacifist. He is well known until nowadays as a greatest world writer.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, as called at birth, was born on August 28, 1828 (most sources say this while other few sources say - September 9, 1828) at Yasnaya Polyana, in Tula Province, where his wealthy family had estate south of Moscow. Leo Tolstoy was baptized Orthodox during privilege and wealthy life in Czarist Russia in 1828. His family was well known as Russian aristocratic landowners.

His father Count Nicolas Tolstoy was from the Russian pre-Nobility. His mother, Princess Marie Volkonsky passed away two years after his birth. Lev Tolstoy's grandmothers came from the Troubetzkoy and Gorchakov princely families. Alexander Pushkin was his fourth cousin. He was the fourth of five children in his family.

His family rented a house and moved to Moscow while he was nine. Lev Tolstoy lost his father while he was nine and his grandmother passed away soon after his father. These happenings in the family motivated Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy to think deep about death, life and happiness and to formulate some ideas about them. He had no interest in university education so he failed the entry exam the first time, although his aunt encouraged him for months; and she kept on convincing him until he passed the second entry exam.

Leo Tolstoy began studying law and oriental languages in 1844 at Kazan University. Teachers there said he was unable and unwilling to learn, so Leo Tolstoy left the university.

He became interested in university after that for its social aspects only. However, his social life became just as bad as his grades. He was discouraged socially and academically for some times.

Women, wine and cards were the most important interests of his class. Leo Tolstoy became sick of his empty and useless life in Moscow, so he went in 1851 to Caucasus where he joined an artillery unit garrisoned in the Cossack part of Chechnya.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy completed his first story "Childhood" in 1852 and sent it to Nikolai Nekrasov to publish it in the "Sovremennik". The story succeeded and opened a great place in Russian literature for Tolstoy.

In 1854 Leo Tolstoy participated in his army fighting in Wallachia against the Turks and the defence of the Fourth Bastion and the battle of Chernaya River. He wrote "Sebastopol Sketches" soon while he was there beginning the techniques he used later in "War and Peace".

Back from the army in 1855, Leo Tolstoy spent the following years until 1861 between Petersburg, Moscow, Yanaya and some foreign countries. He started a school for peasant children at Yasnaya in 1859. He authored a great number of stories for peasant children too. He published the pedagogical magazine "Yasnaya Polyana" in 1982.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy accepted the post of Justice of the Peace in 1861. His first marriage in 1856 was an unsuccessful, but his second marriage from Sofia Andreyevna Behrs in 23 September 1862 was not only successful, but it was considered the real stability life that led Leo Tolstoy to great achievement in literature. He lived with Sofia a blissful state of self-confidence and satisfied and happy life. Sofia proved to be his ideal wife and mother and mistress of the house. They had thirteen children, five of whom died in their childhoods.

Lot of literature and arts institutions has sited assessments of his writing and the role he had played in the development of the European literature. Lev Tolstoy wrote anarchist essays, various essays on art, history and religion; and his quotes became famous as most of his works: His greatest masterpieces "War and Peace", "Anna Karenina", and his other works: "The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories", "Master and Man", "Last Message to Mankind", "Father Sergius", "The Kreutzer Sonata", and "The Forged Coupon".

Lev Tolstoy’s work "The Kingdom of God is Within You" which featured his ideas on non-violent resistance, influenced Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy died on November 07, 1910 (some sources say: 20 Nov.) at Astapovo Railway Stationmaster's house.


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Anticipation!

"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble."

English proverb

Resolution to Succeed!

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president

Resolutions!

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."

Welsh proverb

Power!

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher. He lived in the late 19th century and challenged the traditional morality and Christianity. He relied on the facts of life on our world not on that world beyond our senses. He inspired leaders in all cultural life like poets, novelists, painters, dancers, musicians, psychologists, philosophers, sociologists and social revolutionaries.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in a rural farmland southwest of Leipzig in small German town called Rocken bei Lutzen (Rocken bei Lutzen). He was named after the Prussian King, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, because his birthday coincided with the 49th birthday of the king, who had been responsible to appoint Friedrich Nietzsche's father as Rochen's town minister.

Friedrich Nietzsche's grandfathers were Lutheran ministers, but his paternal grandfather, Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche, was distinguished as a Protestant scholar. While Friedrich Nietzsche was 4 years old, his father Karl Ludwig Nietzsche died (1813-1849) and his two years old brother, Joseph died six months after his father. The family left the town soon after that, to Naumburg a der Saale, where Friedrich Nietzsche lived for eight years with his mother, Franziska (1826-1897), his paternal grandmother, Erdmuthe, his father's two sisters, Auguste and Rosalie, and his younger sister, Therese Elisabeth Alexandra (1846-1935).

Friedrich Nietzsche attended boarding school Schulpforta near Naumburg at the age of 14 until 19 when he prepared for his university studies. Friedrich Nietzsche led during summers the Germania music and literature club and became acquainted with Richard Wagner's music. Friedrich Nietzsche met Paul Deussen during his studies and they became friends. Deussen became later an Orientalist, historian of philosophy, and the founder of the Schopenhauer Society in 1911.

While Friedrich Nietzsche was a teenager he read the German romantic writings of Friedrich Hölderlin and Jean-Paul Richter, plus David Strauss's "Life of Jesus Critically Examined 1848.

Friedrich Nietzsche graduated from Schulpforta and entered the University of Bonn in 1864 as a theology and philosophy student, but his interests drove him more towards philology.

As a philosopher and philologist Friedrich Nietzsche criticized religion, morality, contemporary culture and philosophy. His published critiques imposed fundamental questions regarding the life-affirming and life-denying qualities of different attitudes and beliefs.

Friedrich Nietzsche received recognition during the 20th century in German, French and some British intellectual institutions and regarded influential figure in modern philosophy.

Friedrich Nietzsche received an extraordinary offer to become professor of classical philology at the University of Basel before having him completed his doctorate. He published during 1873 and 1876 four long essays: David Strauss: the Confessor and the Writer, On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, Schopenhauer as Educator, and Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. Those four essays published as a collected edition later under the title of: Untimely Meditations.

Friedrich Nietzsche travelled frequently and lived until 1889 as an independent author in different cities in Europe. He lived from his pension from Basel and received aid from friends.He published "Daybreak: Reflection on Moral Prejudices" in 1881, the first part of "The Gay Science" in 1882, and "Beyond Good and Evil" in 1886.

Friedrich Nietzsche continued to have frequent attacks of illness. In 1887, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the polemic "On Genealogy of Morals". He had mental collapse in January 3, 1889. His health deteriorated and he died in August 25, 1900.

From his works:
The Birth of Tragedy
Untimely Meditations
Human, All Too Human
Day break
The Gay Science
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Beyond Good and Evil
On the Genealogy of Morals
The Case of Wagner
The Twilight of the Idols
The Antichrist
Ecce Homo
Nietzsche Contra Wagner

Wisdom!

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."

Albert Einstein
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Luck!

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US president

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Character!

"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate."

Thomas Jefferson

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Fortune!

"Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands."

Sir Francis Bacon
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Perfection!

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

Oprah Winfrey is a broadcaster and an entrepreneur. She was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi, and named at birth Oprah Gail Winfrey, after one character in the Bible's Book of Ruth. However, Winfrey claims her name to be created because she has problems pronouncing and spelling Oprah, especially at the "r" and the "p".

Oprah Winfrey's father, Vermon Winfrey was a coal miner and a barber before he became a city councilperson. He was in the Armed Forces when Oprah Winfrey was born.

Oprah's mother, Vernita Lee was a housemaid. When Oprah Winfrey was born, her mother travelled north, so Winfrey spent her first six years living in a rural poverty margin with her grandmother Hattie Mae. Her grandma taught her to read before the age of three. She took her to the local church in the area. The folk at the church nicknamed Oprah Winfrey "The Preacher", because they saw how perfect she was when she recites the Bible verses.

Oprah Winfrey moved to a Milwaukee inner city ghetto with her mother when she was six and a half. She was abused as a child by both her cousin and her uncle, as she stated herself, while she was living with her mother. And in regard to her education, Winfrey skipped two of her grades, became the teacher's pet, and received a scholarship to attend a prestigious all-white high school when she was 13.

Oprah Winfrey was taken by the rebel movement of the late 60s and ran away from home to the streets. Her mother sent her to her father in Nashville, Tennessee, when she was 14. Her father was encouraging while taking her education as priority.

Oprah Winfrey became an honors student. She was voted as "Most Popular Girl". She joined her high school speech team, and placed second in the nation in dramatic interpretation. She won an oratory contest, which secured her full scholarship in Tennessee State University, a historical black institution. She studied communications.

Oprah Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee Beauty pageant at the age of 18. She worked at a local radio station and obtained her media career when she was 17. She was the first black news anchor at Nashville's WTVF-TV. She moved to Baltimore's WJZ-TV in 1976 to co-anchor the six o'clock news.

Oprah Winfrey moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1983, to host WLS-TV's the low-rated half-hour morning talk show. Those TV Talk Shows were low-rated, but by overtaking Phil Donahue's talk show platform, Oprah Winfrey worked hard to take them to the highest rated talk shows in Chicago. The Oprah Winfrey Show was created from them, expanded to a full hour, and the first show about "marrying the right person" was broadcasted nationally in September 8, 1986.

Oprah Winfrey co-starred in 1985, in Steven Spielberg's epic film adaptation of Alice Walker's award-winning novel "The Color Purple". In October 1988, Oprah Winfrey produced and starred in "Beloved", based upon Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel by the same name.

Oprah Winfrey publishes the two "O" magazines: O the Oprah Magazine and O at Home.

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A personal growth guide that will give women the tools they need to explore and reach for their dreams. Aiming to give smart women confidence to express their individual style and to make choices that will lead to a happier more fulfilling life. Follows a no stress approach.

The Oprah Winfrey Show - 20th Anniversary DVD Collection
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Batting!

"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average."

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the thirty-second President of the United States (March 4, 1933-April 12, 1945) and the first president to serve more than two terms. He was born at Hyde Park, New York, on 30 January 1882 and died while he was at Warm Springs in Georgia on 12 April 1945. He was preceded by Herbert Hoover and succeeded by Harry S. Truman.

Franklin D. Roosevelt attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. He married his distant cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1905. He followed his fifth cousin President Theodore Roosevelt to enter public service through politics, but as a Democrat.

Franklin Roosevelt won the election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he became the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.

He struggled against polio that was stricken him in the summer of 1921 when he was 39.

He nominated Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior" at the Democratic Convention on 1924. He became Governor of New York in 1928.

Franklin Roosevelt was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms, and he was re-elected in 19356 by a top-heavy margin. He created the New Deal during the Great Depression of the 1930s to provide relief for the unemployed, the same as recovery of the economy, and reform of the economic system. He built the New Deal Coalition that dominated politics into the 1960s.

Franklin Roosevelt confronted re-armament and led the USA away from isolation after 1938, when the world was at the break of World War 11. He provided extensive support to Winston Churchill, before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He provided decisive leadership against the Nazi in Germany and the USA became the principal arms supplier and financier of the Allies to defeat Germany, Italy and Japan. As the Allies neared victory, Franklin Roosevelt played a critical role in shaping the post-war world, particularly through Yalta Conference and the creation of the United Nations.

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Reparation!

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

John F. Kennedy
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Illiteracy!

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

Mark Twain
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Truth!

"Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority."

Sir Francis Bacon
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Fitness!

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

Winston Churchill
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Conformity!

"A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."

Thomas Watson Jr.

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Impressions!

"Words have no wings, but they can fly a thousand miles."

Korean Proverb

Clarity!

"Grey clouds are just clouds passing over."


Edward Kennedy Ellington, called Duke Ellington, was born on April 29, 1899 in Washington, D.C. His parents James Edward Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington were ideal models for him and they taught their son social manners from proper table manners to understanding and feeling the emotional power of music.

Duke Ellington started his piano lessons at the age of seven or eight although he was more inclined to baseball. Duke Ellington started selling peanuts at Washington Senator's baseball games.

At the age of 14 Duke Ellington began sneaking into Frank Holliday's poolroom. He got good experiences from other people he met and knew there. And then he attended Armstrong Manual Training School to study commercial art instead of going to an academic school.

Duke Ellington began to listen to pianists in Washington and in Philadelphia and Atlantic City during summers. He knew Harvey Brooks during one of those summers and sought him in Philadelphia where Harvey showed him some pianist tricks and shortcuts. So when he got home he had "a real yearning to play" as he said and added "I hadn't been able to get off the ground before, but after hearing him I said to myself, Man you're going to have to do it". The music career of Duke Ellington was born that day.

Oliver Perry and Louis Brown taught Duke Ellington how to read music and helped him steps forward to improve his piano playing skills. He found piano playing jobs at clubs and cafes throughout Washington area. He dropped out of school and began his professional music career.

Duke Ellington performed his first musical group "The Duke's Serenaders" in late 1917, and he made significant steps towards independence in 1918-1919. He moved from his parent's house and became his own booking agent for his band.

Duke Ellington moved to New York in 1923. Through the power of the radio Duke Ellington got to listeners throughout NY and made his first recording. He renamed his band "The Washingtonians" and performed in so many places.

In 1928, Duke Ellington and Irving Mills signed an agreement to enable Mills to produce and publish Duke Ellington's music, so big recording companies like Columbia, Victor and Brunswick sought his music and Duke Ellington's band became the most sought-after band in the United States and throughout the world.

Duke Ellington began working in films on 1929, starting with the short film "Black and Tan". He appeared in "Check and Double Check" which helped introduce him to a wide audience. He continued to appear with his Orchestra in films throughout the thirtieth and the fortieth such as "Murder at the Vanities" on 1934. His soundtracks got to "Anatomy of a Murder" on 1959 in which he also appeared as a bandleader. He did the same in ”Paris Blues" on 1961 which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

Duke Ellington's band played from NY to Delhi, Chicago to Cairo, and Los Angeles to London. He is regarded until now as the most important musician to emerge in the United States from the US jazz music, and as one of the twentieth century's best-known African-American celebrities.

Before passing away in 1974, Duke Ellington wrote and recorded hundreds of musical compositions.

Hero!

"There's a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
There's an answer
if you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away."

Mariah Carey is a well known singer. She is a songwriter (lyrist) in Pop and R & B music, as well as a record producer and actress. She was born on Friday, March 27, 1970 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, to Alfred Roy Carey and Patricia Hickey. She raised there by her mother who was a former Opera singer with the New York City Opera and a vocal coach of Irish American. Her father was an aeronautical engineer of African-American and Venezuelan descent.

Being multiethnic family, the Careys endured racial hostility and violence, causing the family to relocate throughout the New York and Rhode Island areas. While Mariah Carey was three years old, her parents divorced because of the strain in the family. So, her mother worked several jobs to support the family.

Mariah Carey began singing at the age of four and she performed the first time in public during elementary school. She wrote her own songs in Junior high school. She graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York while she was carrying on building her popularity as demo singer for local recording studios.

Mariah Carey is known as Pop diva while obtaining her career in this field. She made her debut in 1990 following the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola to have her first five singles top of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Mariah Carey met Mottola in 1988. Mottola was impressed by her songs and married her in 1993.

Mariah Carey made a series of subsequent successful records which consolidated her position as Columbia's highest-selling act.

She is successful in taking control over her image and music after being separated from Mottola in 1997, to force her talent and career forward. So, she introduced and developed elements of hip hop into her album material.

Mariah Carey left Columbia in 2001 and she was dropped by Virgin Records the following year after a highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown and the poor reception of Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. But she returned to the forefront of popularity in Pop music in 2005 when she signed with Island/Def Jam.

The World Music Awards named Mariah Carey the best-selling female artist of all time in 2000. She accomplished her commercial targets that year when she has recorded the most US number-one singles for a female artist.

Her song "We Belong Together" is attracting good numbers of audience worldwide, bringing Mariah Carey to the top of the Pop music world.

Music marketing observers consider Mariah Carey as the best-selling Pop female performer of the Ninetieth. The steaming singer Mariah Carey's music performs the content of so many ringtones, and makes great deal of the income potential of this industry.

Audience can hear Mariah Carey's song lyrics in mp3s, music videos, CDs and DVDs, Internet radios, and live performances.

Learning!

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

Alexander Pope was born in London on May 21, 1688 to Alexander Pope and his second wife Edith Turner. He was regarded as the greatest English poet of the early eighteenth century.

He was taught to read by his aunt and then sent to schools at Twyford and at Hyde Park Corner. He suffered from different health problems early at his childhood which deformed his body, stunned his growth and causing end his life at the age of 56 in 1744.

Alexander Pope's family moved in 1700 to small estate in Binfield, Berkshire. The poet described the countryside in the area in his poem "Windsor Forest". He embarked on an extensive reading in English, French, Italian, Latin and Greek poetry, through which he got those languages by reading those stories to please himself as he wrote in his biography.

Alexander Pope began his early literally career when his first volume of "Poetical Miscellanies" published in 1709 and then "The Pastorals" both of which were followed by "An Essay on Criticism" on 1711, made him fame. Alexander Pope published "Windsor Forest" on 1713 as a topographical poem celebrating the "Tory Peace" at the end of the "War of the Spanish Succession".

Alexander Pope had been mesmerized by Homer since his childhood, so he announced his thought to translate Homer's "Iliad" in 1713, which he did later when that work appeared duly between 1715 and 1720.

Alexander Pope published "Epistle to Burlington" on 1731. The first four poems from that work grouped under that title of "Moral Essays" which he published on 1735. He wrote "Essay on Man" on 1733-1734, and then followed it by the "Imitations of Horace" on 1733-1738.

Alexander Pope died on May 30, 1744 and buried at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Twickenham.

Innovations!

"As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."

Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), philosopher, essayist, author, poet, lawyer and statesman.

Sir Francis Bacon was born in York House, London, England on January 22, 1561 and died in London on April 9, 1626. His father Sir Nicolas Bacon was the Lord Keeper of the Seal of Elisabeth the 1st and his mother Ann Cooke Bacon was the second wife of Nicholas, a member of the Reformed/Puritan Church and a daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke, whose sister married William Cecil, Lord Burghley, the great minister of Queen Elizabeth.

Sir Francis Bacon was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1573 at age 12, and he continued at the Gray's Inn School of Law. His father died when he was 18. His rich relatives did little to advance his career. Elisabeth apparently distrusted him. His career advanced when James the 1st became king. English literature led by Sir Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare grew during King James's reign.

Sir Francis Bacon was knighted in 1603, became attorney general in 1613, lord keepr in 1617; and was created Baron Verulam in 1618 and Viscount St Alban in 1621. Those titles became extinct upon his death.

Sir Francis Bacon considered as master of the English tongue, influential English writer of the late 16th and 17th century, and powerful speaker in Parliament and in famous trials.

Sir Francis Bacon was well known as the source of William Shakespeare's work and one of the renaissance leaders in England.

Sir Francis Bacon began his profession as a lawyer; and he become well known as a philosophical advocate and defender of the scientific revolution. His works establishes a Baconian method that implies drawing knowledge from the natural world through experimentation, observation and testing of hypotheses.

He was accused of accepting bribes as Lord Chancellor in 1621, so he pleaded guilty and was fined £40.000, banished from court, disqualified from holding office, and sentenced to the Tower of London, though those banishments were remitted.

Passion!

"The biggest mistake people make in life is NOT making a living at doing what they most enjoy."


Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

Malcolm Forbes was born on August 19, 1919 in Englewood, New Jersey. He was the third son of Scottish immigrants. His father Bertie Charles Forbes (May 14,1880 - May 6, 1954) founded Forbes Magazine in 1917. Malcolm Forbes took his father place in the Forbes magazine in 1957, after 3 years of his father's death. He became the sole owner of Forbes magazine after the death of Bruce Charles Forbes, his elder brother in 1964.

Malcolm Forbes was considered one of the most famous names in the World. Forbes magazine grew strong economy and manufacturing styles under his leadership. He diversified his publications into real estate sales and some other ventures, such as his latest projects. One of Malcolm Forbes's fabulous projects was the magazine Egg, which chronicled the night life of New York.

Malcolm Forbes acquired the richest expensive collectibles in the World, such as his Capitalist Toll jet, ever larger Highlander yachts, the nine Fabergé eggs, collection of Harley Davidson motorbikes, his French Chateau in Balleroy - Normandy, Hot air balloons, other huge art collection and fabulous birthday parties. One of those remarkable birthday parties was that of his 70th birthday party, when he chose the Palais du Mendoub, which Malcolm Forbes had acquired from the Moroccan government in 1970 in the northwestern city of Tangier, to celebrate his birthday.

Malcolm Forbes died in February 24, 1990 and his son Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. succeeded him as editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine.

Dynamic Motivational Quotes and Insights!: Relativity!

Dynamic Motivational Quotes and Insights!: Relativity!

Dynamic Motivational Quotes and Insights!: Tenderness!

Dynamic Motivational Quotes and Insights!: Tenderness!

Dynamic Motivational Quotes and Insights!: Ambitions!

Dynamic Motivational Quotes and Insights!: Ambitions!

Chances!

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

Thomas Jefferson was the third US President (1801-1809). He was born on April 13, 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia and died on July 4, 1826 in Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia.

In 1752, Thomas Jefferson began attending a local school run by William Douglas, a Scottish reverend. He began studying the classical languages of Latin, Greek and French at the age of nine. He was taught at the school of James Maury in Fredericksburg parish from 1758 to 1760, where he studied history and natural science.

Thomas Jefferson studied at the college of William and Mary in Williamsburg at the age of 16 from 1760 to 1762. He entered philosophy school and studied mathematics, metaphysics and philosophy. Thomas Jefferson graduated in 1762 with highest honours and then studied law and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1767.

Thomas Jefferson stood at a powerful position as an advocate of liberty; and he was well known as eloquent correspondent, but he was not a public speaker. In that direction he contributed his pen rather than his voice to the patriot cause in the Virginia House of Burgesses and the Continental Congress.

Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence at the age of 33 while he was in the Congress. He wrote a bill for establishing religious freedom enacted in 1786.

Thomas Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785. He entered into conflict with Alexander Hamilton (1st United States Secretary of the Treasury 1789-1795) while he was Secretary of State in President Washington's Cabinet because of his sympathy for the French Revolution, so he resigned in 1793.

That conflict led to sharp political conflict which was developed to form the Federalists Party and the Democratic Republicans Party. Thomas Jefferson assumed leadership of the Republicans. So, while attacking Federalists policies, he opposed a strong centralized Government and championed the rights of states.

As he was a reluctant candidate for President in 1796, Thomas Jefferson came with three votes of election. He became Vice President, although he was an opponent of President John Adams, through a flaw in the Constitution.

While Thomas Jefferson assumed the Presidency in 1801, the crisis in France had passed. He suppressed his qualms over constitutionality, while the Constitution made no provision for the acquisition of new land, so he had the opportunity to acquire Louisiana Territory from Napoleon in 1803.

Thomas Jefferson was very active in keeping the Nation from involvement in Napoleon's wars, though both France and England interfered with the neutral rights of the American merchants.

Thomas Jefferson retired to live in Monticello and to ponder some projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. He was succeeded by James Madison.

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Dynamic Motivational Quotes and Insights!: Choices!

A thought!

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Aristotle

Perfection!

"I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views."

Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president
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Ignorance!

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise."

Tomas Gray was born on December 26, 1716 near St. Michael's Church in Cornhill, London and died on July 30, 1771. He was an English poet and professor of history at Cambridge University in 1768. He was educated at Eton College and became a fellow at Peterhouse and then Pembroke College.

Thom Gray took the Grand Tour to other lands in Europe where he visited Copenhagen tracking stories about cats, which he found in H.C.Andersen’s tales.

Thomas Gray’s collections include: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes", "Selected Poems of Thomas Gray", Gray: Poetry and Prose", "Gray's Elegy and Goldsmith's the Deserted Village, the Traveller and Other Poems", "Gray and Collins: Poetical Works", and "Poems by Mr. Gray",

This proverb is from one of his poetry "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" he wrote in 1742. Some sources say this verse was written in 1747.

Integrity!

"When you're at Rome do as the Romans do."

English proverb
This proverb was not first found as an English proverb, because the English version from this proverb was found in 1669 and it says: "When thou art at Rome, thou must do as Rome does." Both versions are invented from a message written by St. Augustine in the fourth century.

Accuracy!

"It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American influential poet, linguist, and educator. He was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine; but lived most of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he died on March 24, 1882.

His family came to America in 1676 from Yorkshire, England. His father Stephen Longfellow was Portland advocate and congressman, while his grandfather Peleg Wadsworth was a
general in the American Revolution.

Henry Wadsworth was educated at Portland Academy and Bowdoin College where he offered a professorship after graduation in 1825. He travelled to Europe 1826-1829 and became the first professor of modern languages at Bowdoin when he returned.

Henry Wadsworth wrote some books in French, Spanish and Italian. He offered the Smith Professorship of Spanish and French at Harvard in 1834 after having him travelled to Europe to perfect his German language. He then began publishing his poetry "Voices of the Night" in 1839 and "Ballads and Other Poems" including his famous poem "The Village Blacksmith" in 1841. He
offered the Doctorate of Laws from Harvard in 1859.

Henry Wadsworth's works include complete poetical works and other writing genres, both of which includes - The Song of Hiawatha, Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride, The Rainy Day, Six Sonnets on Dante's Divine Comedy, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Failure!

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Bill Cosby - William Henry Cosby was born on July 12, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an American author, writer and actor. He is well known as an American comedian. He is one of the popular and influential US' entertainers and performers. He established his own TV show series called the Bill Cosby Show in 1969 (about middle-class African American), as he created the educational cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, acted in some films, hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things and continued appearing on the stand-up circuit to perform his brand of comedy.

Bill Cosby earned the nickname of America's Dad for his own creation of show materials from different tales, he made often while dealing with his own family. He has been sought-after spokesman for products like Pudding, Coca-Cola and Jell-O.

Bill Cosby studied physical education at Temple University, Philadelphia in 1961 and left it to pursue his career in comedy. He exposed nationally on NBC's Tonight Show on NBC in 1963 and released Very Funny Fellow Right a series comedy album in 1964. He starred with Poitier on the New Bill Cosby Show. He pursued his education at the University of Massachusetts.

Bill Cosby received some Honorary Doctorates from some universities: from the University of Cincinnati on 2001, from West Chester University of Pennsylvania on 2003, and from Baylor University on 2003. He received also some other Honours and Rewards like Kennedy Centre Honours on 1998, Presidential Medal of Freedom on 2002, Honorary Doctor of Music Degree from Berkley College of Music on 2004 and he won Bob Hope Humanitarian Award on 2003.

Bill Cosby criticizes the Black Americans in May 2004 at Washington's Constitution Hall while commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education, for putting higher priorities on sports and fashion than on education, and the way they're speaking English. He said about the lower economic, that African Americans are willing to pay $ 500 for sneakers but not half that amount for educational tools.

Bill Cosby donated millions of Dollars to black colleges and black causes.

As a successful comedian, he also has works in Books such as:
Fatherhood - Time Flies - Love and Marriage - Kids Say the Darndest Things - Congratulations! Now What? A Book for Graduates - I Am What I Ate...and I'm Frightened - Friends of a Feather - and, Childhood. You can find these books at amazon as you can find other vidoes and DVDs.

Genius!

"A genius is a talented person who does his homework."

Thomas Edison

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Truth!

"Truth is our most valuable commodity, so let us economize."

Mark Twain

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Value!

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."

Albert Einstein

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Opportunities!

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Thomas Edison, inventor
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Globalization!

"After 200 years or 2000 years, we'll be history. So, why not create a multicultural environment for all those coming generations? They'll absolutely thank us for life for our engagement in these globalization efforts."

Khalid Osman
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Learning!

"No expert has been born with expertises' spoon in his mouth."

Khalid Osman

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Expectations!

"He who awaits much can expect little."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1927 in the small town of Aracataca which lies in the banana zone in the tropical region of northern Colombia. He is a Colombian journalist, novelist, publisher and political activist, well regarded as one of the greatest writers in contemporary Spanish literature.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrought as a reporter in some newspapers in Latin America and correspondent to others in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He has lived and spent most of his life in Mexico and Europe. He studied journalism and law at the National University in Bogotá and at the University of Cartagena. He began his career as a reporter and editor for regional newspapers.

The modern literature schools are discussing the impact of the Spanish language magical realism in the modern literal and art movements. Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Romulo Gallegos Prize in 1972 for his "One Hundred Years of Solitude. He won Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. He considered worldwide as the greatest Latin American master of narrative.

His novels are published since 1962 and include: Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Of Love and Other Demons.

His short stories and collections include: Leaf Storm, Innocent Erendira, Leaf Storm, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, The Handsomest Drawn Man in the World, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, No One Writes to the Colonel, Strange Pilgrims, Big Mama's Funeral and For the Sake of a Country Within Reach of the Children.

His non-fictions include: Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin, News of a Kidnapping, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Living to Tell the Tale.

Self-control!

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."

Thomas J. Watson - Thomas John Watson was born on February 17, 1874 in Campbell, New York, and died on June 19, 1956; and called that time the world's greatest salesman. His premier formal education was in the Elmira School of Commerce. He began his career in 1892 at the age of 18 as bookkeeper in Clarence Risley's Market in Painted Post. He sold pianos and sewing machines later.

Thomas J. Watson was a salesman in the National Cash Register Company (NCR) and then became general sales manager. The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) had been founded in 1911 by Herman Hollerith. Watson became president of the company on 1915 and he renamed the company the International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924 to lead the computers and the electronics world. He was chairman of IMB and Columbia University Trustee.

In 1937 he became president of the International Chamber of Commerce. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1990. Many studies and research centers are established after his name. Many awards also are rewarded from his IBM Corporation. Thomas J. Watson handed the IBM corporation to his older son who was called by his father's name before his death. His son Thomas J. Watson Jr. (1914-1993) led the corporation as chairman until he stepped down on 1971.

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Confidence!

"Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life."

John Dewey was born on October 20, 1859 in Burlington, Vermont and died on June 1, 1952. He received his PhD from the Krieger School of Arts and Science at John Hopkins University in 1884. He was professor of philosophy at Columbia University on 1904. He developed his practical learning to be implemented during the time that he ran this project of - learning by doing - with his wife at University of Chicago. He was an educator, psychologist and philosopher. His learning methods are described as conceptual philosophy of education and were influential in the United States and worldwide.

John Dewey provided in theory and practises a project on progressive education. He was regarded as one of the founders of the American pragmatism school through which he developed ways for informal educators to follow. He contributed in editing the Encyclopaedia for Unified Science. He has some centres for his own studies in several universities through which his philosophy of education spreads. So his theories are followed by some schools and universities worldwide. He wrote Democracy and Education, based upon the democratic or proto democratic educational philosophies of Plato and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

John Dewey also wrote: How We Think, Human Nature and Conduct, Reconstruction in Philosophy, Liberalism and Social Action, Experience and Education, Freedom and Culture, Knowing and the Known and some other books. Quotes and Insights at http://quotes-and-insights.blogspot.com

Leadership!

"I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, education and patience."

Dwight Eisenhower is the 34th president of the United States of America, USA. He was born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas, and brought up in Abilene, Kansas. He was married to Mamie Geneva Doud in 1916. After Pearl Harbor, General George C. Marshall called Dwight Eisenhower to Washington for a war plan assignment.

Dwight Eisenhower commanded the Allied Forces in North Africa in November 1942; and in 1944 he was Supreme Commander for the troops invading France. He served a Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe as General of the Army, and he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO in 1949.

Dwight Eisenhower became President of Columbia University after the war, and then left to assume supreme command over the NATO forces in 1951. He was persuaded from Republican emissaries to his headquarters near Paris to run for President in 1952. He was elected in November 1956 for his second term.

Dwight Eisenhower was engaged in talks with Russia during the Cold War and he achieved signing a truce which brought an armed peace along the borders of South Korea in 1953, meanwhile the death of Stalin that year caused shifts in relation with USSR.

He left office in January 1961; and he died in March 28, 1969. He was from the Republican Party. He was preceded by Harry Truman and succeeded by John Kennedy. He had Richard Nixon as his Vice President. Quotes and Insights at http://quotes-and-insights.blogspot.com

Intellect!

"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian renaissance architect, artist painter, sculptor, engineer, anatomist, inventor, musician and geometer. His birth name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci. Da Vinci in his name means from Vinci. He was born on 15 April 1452 in a farmhouse in Anchiano 3 km away from Vinci, Italy and died on 2 May 1519.

Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa has made him fame through centuries. He has achieved also some other great works such as The Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, Mary Magdalene, the Hand and Knife, the Madona of the Rocks, Madonna Litta, The Baptism of Christ, The Virgin with Flowers, Lady with an Ermine, Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi, The Benois Madonna, Last Supper, Leda and the Swan, Bacchus, La belle Ferronière and Portrait of a Musician.

Leonardo da Vinci invented the tank and the use of the concentrated solar power and the calculator, beside some other inventories. He presented detailed studies of flight, based on birds examples and prepared plans for several flying machines including his helicopter which powered by four men.

Leonardo da Vinci achieved some civil engineering projects including his bridge for the Turkish government. Design based on that bridge was applied in Norway in 2001 and in 2006 the Turkish authorities decided to construct his bridge. The Da Vinci Code shows the encoding methods developed by Leonardo da Vinci during his experiments and career. In addition to Leonardo da Vinci Museum, his works are presented in different halls and museums around the world. Quotes and Insights at http://quotes-and-insights.blogspot.com

Adventure!

"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence."

Eleanor Roosevelt
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Beliefs!

"Believe one who has tried it."

Virgil, Publius Vergilius Maro is a Roman poet. The Latin poet was born on October 15, 70 BC in Norhern Italy in a small village called Andes near Manuta in Cisalpine Gaul south of the Alps in northern Italy, and died of fever he caught while he travelled to Greece, on September 21st, 19. BCE in Brindisi - Brundisium harbor. He instructed on his deathbed the Aeneid should be destroyed but by Augustus' order the poem was edited and published after his death.

The Aeneid by Virgil, took his last ten years and came out consists of several books he said in it that Rome will be consisted of mixed blood. He received early education at the age of five years old, studied rhetoric, medicine and astronomy and abandoned this last education to philosophy in Rome. He began writing poetry while he was at school there in Siro the Epicurean. His first poetry published in mid 30's BC. In Dante's Divine Comedy, the historical figure of Vergil guides Dante on his pilgrimage through hell, purgatory and heaven.

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Stepping!

"You don’t have to see the top of the staircase to take the first step."


Martin Luther King is well known as civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1964. He was born as civil rights fighter on January 15, 1929 and died in April 4, 1968. His name changed later from Michael to Martin. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia and received his B.A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College known as a Negro institution of Atlanta.
Martin Luther King was awarded the B.D. in 1951 and received the doctorate in 1955. He was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 since then and until 1968, (king travelled over six million miles and spoke over twenty five hundred times wherever there was injustice.) He was awarded five honorary degrees and at the age of thirty five, king was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Horizon!

"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road."

Dag Hammarskjöld was born on July 29, 1905 and died on September 18, 1961. He was the youngest of four sons of Hjalmar Hammarskjold, prime minister of Sweden 1914-1917.

He was member of the Hague Tribunal, governor of Uppland, chairman of Board of the Nobel Foundation. He gained his degree from Uppsala University in 1925 in the humanities, with emphasis on linguistics, literature, and history. Political economy remained his professional interest for some years, so he took a second degree in economics at Uppsala in 1928. He acquired a law degree in 1930 and a doctoral degree in economics in 1934.

Dag Hammarskjöld taught economics for one year in 1933 in Stockholm University. He devoted 31 years in Swedish financial affairs, Swedish foreign relations and global international affairs. He was the secretary of the Bank of Sweden in 1935. He held the post of undersecretary in the ministry of Finance from 1935-1945 and the head of the Bank of Sweden from 1941-1948. He became the deputy foreign minister in 1951.

Dag Hammarskjold represented Sweden as a delegate to the UN in 1949 and from 1951-1953. He was elected Secretary-General of the UN in 1953 for five years term and re-elected again in 1957. He played a remarkable role in the Middle East politics and Katanga problem in Congo where his airplane crashed on the night of September 17-18. He won the Noble Prize for peace in 1961.

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Happiness!

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her!"

Oscar Wilde

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Advice!

"Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, critic and philosopher. He was born on 21st October 1772 in the Devon village of Ottery St, Mary and died on July 25, 1834. He founded with his friend William Wordsworth and others the Romantic School in England. From his works: Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel, Kubla Khan and his poetry in some other collections like the Selected Poems of S.T. Coleridge by James Reeves. His father was vicar and master of the grammar school.

Coleridge was sent as a boarder to Christ's Hospital in London, when his father died. He was nine years old then. He remained there from 1782 to 1791. From October 1971 until December 1794 Coleridge was at Jesus College, Cambridge. Early in 1795 Coleridge was back in Bristol where he began a series of lectures on political subjects to collect funds for the Pantisocratic venture. He established an association with his friend Wordsworth in March 1797. During 1799 to 1800, Coleridge wrote political articles for the Morning Post.

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Enlightenment!

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness".

Eleanor Roosefult was born in New Yourk on October 11, 1884 and died on November 7,1962. Her father Elliot Roosevelt was the younger brother to President Theodore Roosevelt. Her parents died while she was a child, so she lived with her grandmother Mrs. Valentine G. Hall in Tivoli, New Yourk, where she was educated by private tutors until the age of 15. She was sent to Allenswood girls school in England. She married her fifth cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 17,1905.

She was appointed by President Truman to the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly. She was chairman of the Human Rights Commission during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the General Assembly on December 10, 1948.

She was an American representative to the World Federation of the United Nations Associations, and later became the chairman of the Associations' Board of Directors. She was reappointed to the United States Delegation to the United Nations by President Kennedy in 1961. Kennedy also appointed her as a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Peace Corps and chairman of the President's Commission on the Status of Women. Mrs. Roosevelt received many awards for her humanitarian efforts.

Occurrence!

"Nothing happens until something moves."

Albert Einstein. Read more motivational quotes by Einstein here.

Success!

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill- British prime minister, an author and a well known speaker. He attained recognition as a professional writer and speaker. His works as a writer appears in A History of the English Speaking Peoples, My Early Life, First World War, The World Crisis, and The Second World War which earned him the Noble Prize for Literature.

Principles!

"There are two great principles for achieving financial success. The first Principle is what we call the law of attraction. The law of attraction says that you are a living magnet. It says that your thoughts create a force field of energy that radiates out from you and attracts back into your life people and circumstances in harmony with them."

Brian Tracy is an American author and chairman of Brian Tracy International, a human resource company based in San Diego, California. His works appear also as audio books.
His talk and seminars include leadership, sales, managerial effectiveness and business strategies. He's the best selling author of several self-improvement books. He's the author of many winning success series such as: Million Dollars Habits, The Science of Positive Focus, Thinking Big: The Keys to Personal Power and Maximum Achievement, Getting Rich in America, Goal Planner with its Goals Package, The Psychology of Selling, Personal Time Management Series, Action Strategies for Personal Achievement, Breaking the Success Barrier, 24 Techniques for Closing the Sale, How You Can Start, Build, Manage or Turn Around Any Business and more than hundred other intellectual products.

Improvement!

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations."

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco. CEO of Apple who co-founded it in April 1, 1976. Apple is leading its industry innovation with its award winning desktop and notebook Mac computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also leading the digital music revolution with over 50 million iPod players and iTunes. He popularized the concept of the home computer with the Apple 11.

Self-confidence!

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

Robert Frost, America's favorite poet. 1874-1963. He was born in San Francisco, California on March 26, 1874 and died in Boston on January 29, 1963. He grew up as a city boy and graduated from high school and wrought in various jobs including teaching, factory works and newspaper delivery.

Descriptively analysing, his poetry was simple and direct. He received 4 Pulitzers Prizes and other honors. From his selected works: Three Poems, New Hampshire, Mountain Interval, Home Burial, A Witness Tree, A Further Range, Hard Not to be King, The Lone Striker and more poems and plays.

Intellection!

"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, the generous qualities, progressive ideas."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Full name: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. The Soviet greatest writer was born in Moscow on October 30, 1821 and died on February 9, 1881. He is one of the greatest Russian writers, whose works have had a profound and lasting effect on twentieth-century fiction. His works as wikipedia says exhibit both an uncanny grasp of human psychology as well as penetrating analyses of the political, social and spiritual states of Russia in his time. His greatest works include: Crime and Punishment - 1866, The Brothers Karamazov - 1880, The Possessed - 1872, The House of the Dead - 1860, and the Idiot - 1868.

Prize!

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President. He was born on October 27, 1858 in New York, New York and died on January 6, 1919 in Oyster Bay, New York. White House says with the assassination of President McKinely, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43 became the youngest President in America's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigoroudly led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and strong foreign policy.

Enthusiasm!

"When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value."

Thomas Edison

Inspiration!

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

Winston Churchill

Forgiveness!

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

Oscar Wilde

Education!

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle – Philosoph. See more details:
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Extraordinary!

"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released."

Jean Houston - is an author of 15 books and one of the founders of the Human Potential Movement. Ph.D. Jean Houston was born in 10 May 1937 in New Yourk City as she said in her self-published autobiography "A Mythic Life, 1996". She educated herself well and achieved a B.A. from Barnard College, a Ph.D. in psychology from the Union Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Foundation.

Schooling!

"I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education."

Mark Twain

Passion!

"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that idles than the one you are capable of living."

Nelson Mandela

Capability!

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

Thomas Edison – February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931. An American scientist, businessman, inventor, and pioneer of distance learning - phongraph, lightbulb and other devices. He was born in Milan, Ohio to be one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the invention process. His family - the Dutch Edison - immigrated to New Jersey in 1730.
He began his inventory career in Newark, New Jersey with the automatic repeater and other telegraphic devices, but he gained fame when he invent the phonograph in 1877.

Experience!

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Oscar Wilde – October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900. He was Anglo-Irish playwright, poet, novelist and short story writer. He was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalene College, Oxford. His first volume of poetry was published in 1881. He established his name as a writer since 1878. The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Happy Prince and Other Tales considered amongst his best work. He wrote and produced comedies such as Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. His life and death are tragedies as he died in a hotel in France in 1900 three years after his release from prison (He was convicted of sexuality).

Intellect

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."

Abraham Lincoln – 16th US President, 1861 - 1865. He was born on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky and died after being shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth, an actor. He built the Republican Party and he was the first president to be elected from that party. He stood firm defending the human rights and preserving the Union and ending the slavery by his Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He rallied most of the Northern Democrats to the Union cause during the Civil War. He called for the Southerners to lay down their arms and join the union. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation to declare forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. He was preceded by James Buchanan.

Talent

"Every artist was first an amateur."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882. American writer, poet, essayist, spiritual teacher
and philosopher. Some sources refer to him as a leader of the transcendentalist
movement. He was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston / Massachusetts.

Planning!

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."

Victor Hugo, February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885. French poet. Romantic writer.
As a leftist he supported the Republicans and the European Union. His best works are Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris. He defended the human rights during the reign of King Louis Philippe in 1841 and spoke criticized the death penalty and the social injustice standing in the line defending the freedom of the press and calling for self-government for Poland. He criticized Napoleon when the late seized power in 1851 and confiscated democracy. Hugo fled to Brussels then to Jersey until he settled with his family on Guemsey.

Courage!

"They can conquer who believe they can."

Virgil - October 15, 70 BC- September 21,19 BC. Roman / Latin Poet. The Aeneid he wrote and took his last ten years is an epic poeom that became the Roman Empire's national epic. It tells about the Trojan hero Aeneas escape to Italy and his love to Dido the queen of Cathage when she welcomed him during his escape. He wrote six of the last books on the light of Homer's Odyssey. He was born in a village called Andes south of the Alps; north of Italy nowadays. He studied rhetoric astronomy and medicine in Rome. He abanoned astronomy soon to philosophy.

Challenges!

"After climbing a great hill, one finds many more hills to climb."

Nelson Mandela - 18 July 1918 - The first elected president of South Africa. Leader of the African National Congress (ANC). Jailed for life after the banning of the ANC in 1960 during the apartheid policy led by the minority White. He led his party from prison with the help of his wife and comrades. Upon his release in 1990, he switched from the armed struggle to reconciliation. He enjoyed the presidency from 1994-1999 then retired to leave the power to Thabo Mbeki. He won Nobel Peace Prize 1993

Possibility!

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Albert Einstein

Actions!

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."


Aristotle, 384 BC - 322 BC. Ancient Greek Philosopher. He studied with Plato and taught Alexander the Great. He's considered along with Plato and Socrates, one of the great influential ancient Greek philospher.

Persistence!

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."

Sir Winston Churchill 30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 2nd World War. He served Prime Minister for several terms. He was a journalist, a soldier, an author, a painter and a politician. He won Nobel Prize in Literature on 1953.

Challenge!

"We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."



John F. Kennedy
May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963.
Former USA President from the Democratic Party. He was the 35th President of the United States of America. He started Presidency on January 20, 1961. The democratic Party nominated him a candidate for the presidency. He asked Lyndon Johnson to be his Vice President candidate. He was assassinated on 1963.

Patience!

"If you have one moment of patience, you'll have thousand moments of peace".

Tamil proverb

Flexibility!

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi – 19 November 1917 - 31 October 1984
Indian fromer Prime Minister. She served 3 terms as PM, while her father Jawaharlal Nehro served for 4 times.